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...woods near Saratoga Springs, Playwright Thornton Wilder sat composing a eulogy to the late Thomas Mann. As he wrote, a small balding man, quiet and sharp-eyed as a young deer, moved among the trees, observing and pausing to focus his Leica. The click of the shutter among the bird sounds and leaf rustles was inaudible. Later Wilder wrote in the photographer's memento book: "To Alfred Eisenstaedt-not only a master photographer but a presence so tactful and soothing that I found myself working -really working-and working extra well while he went about his task...
...artist." Achieving that wish turned out to be a long haul that took him to the Art Students' League, abroad for a year's painting in Paris, and home again to work with Muralist Anton Refregier and Abstractionist Stuart Davis. Then a summer on Deer Island, off the Maine coast, gave Kienbusch his clue to what he liked to paint best: "The world of many things I love-Maine islands, trees, the sea, fences, gong buoys, churches, roses, mountains...
When bison were grazing on the Pentagon and deer frolicking on the White House grounds, France was there to play midwife to the birth of the U.S. Believe me, despite all "chaotic politics," France can take it; she intends to stay...
...outspoken film Death of a Cyclist) was picked up while making a new picture with U.S. Filmactress Betsy (Marty) Blair, wife of Hollywood's Gene Kelly. While the Falangist newspaper Arriba hysterically blamed the "hostile foreign press" for instigating violence, Dictator Franco postponed his dearly loved annual deer and boar hunt to study his people's heartbeat...
...Larry W. Blanchard, his deputy Robert Butler and two other examiners were suspended on charges that they falsified an official report of the financial status of General American Casualty Co., which went broke last year. Blanchard and Butler were accused of having permitted General American to entertain them at deer hunts, Examiner William J. Noad of having accepted $135 from General American to pay his rent...